SANCTUARY 12

from a huge black mural — fire, smoke, flying debris —
36 feet wide and 7 feet tall.
It’s made of two 18 foot canvases
(the seam in the center won’t be visible)
photographed on trees in my yard where it doesn’t fit.
Half the left side folds behind a tree
And I promise the gallery will not have oranges.
Sigh.
Please come see it on a big wall in July.


A frightened child clutches bags stamped “product”
at the front of a double-mast raft…

on a separate mast far behind the child.

but these desperate rigs need to be witnessed in context.

This woman, laden with bags,
holds out her palm (of clay) to visitors
in the front of another double raft.


holding the baby’s foot.

bordered by tree bark, bounded by rope
will become the base of their raft…

to sanctuary.